Welcome to Glenn Robison’s Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and ’30s.

On this evening’s show we’ll do some whistling, fulfill a request, play “What’s My Line”, and celebrate the birthdays of Val Rosing and Amanda Blake.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: College Songs
Listener Dan sent a nice e-mail suggesting that I play, as he put it, “a bunch of those college songs”. So here for listener Dan, is a bunch of those college songs.

Varsity Drag – Ruth Etting / Rube Bloom, p
College Rhythm – Johnny Davis AHO
Betty Co-Ed – Ben Pollack AHO / Chester Gaylord

Segment 2: Topic
If you’ve ever attended or watched a professional sporting event on TV, you’ve more than likely heard Joseph Hudson’s invention, the solid brass pea whistle “Acme Thunderer” blown. So here to commemorate Joseph Hudson’s Acme Thunderer, are some songs about whistling.

I Love to Whistle – Fats Waller
Whistles – Hal Kemp AHO – Skinnay Ennis, Saxiw Dowell, Hal Kemp
If You Can’t Sing the Words, You Must Whistle the Tune – Billy Murray

Segment 3: Kitty
February 20 marked the birth in 1929 of Beverly Louise Neill. You may know her as Amanda Blake. Still doesn’t ring a bell? How ‘bout “Miss Kitty” in “Gunsmoke”? In any case, here to celebrate Miss Kitty’s birthday, are some rapidly rotating records about kitties.

Kansas City Kitty – The Cotton Pickers
Kitty on Toast – Horace Henderson AHO
The Pussy Cat Rag (Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty) – The Peerless Quartet w/Ada Jones

Segment 4: Lines
February 16 in 1950 marked the debut on CBS television of the longest running game show in prime-time network television history, “What’s My Line”. So here to commemorate “What’s My Line”, are some rapidly rotating records about lines.

Can’t You Read Between the Lines – Gus Arnheim AHO/George Gramlich
I’m Walking the Chalk Line – Geo. Scott Wood AHO/Sam Browne
Line-A-Jive – Blanche Calloway and Her Band

Segment 5: Val Rosing
February 21 marked the birth in 1910 of Val Rosing, son of the distinguished Russian operatic tenor Vladimir Rosing.

The Teddy Bear’s Picnic – Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra / Val Rosing
Just a Dance at Twilight: Love’s Old Sweet Song – Jack Payne BBC Dance Orchestra /Val Rosing
Please – Jay Wilbur AHO/Val Rosing

Segment 6: Last College Fling
We have time for one more of those college songs.

Collegiana – Hal Kemp and His Orchestra

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